New Site Feature: Same Model As Tab

We've had a tab that's shown you similar models on Wowhead for quite a while, but let's face it, it's been inconsistent. While helmets and shoulders have always been steadfast as they could be automatically generated, many accessories have had no such tab or have had a tab with incorrect data. Belts in particular could be misleading, because many belts had the same textures but ended up looking nothing alike; the same goes for breastplates and boots.

Luckily for you guys, though, we've been working on it--for a long time, in fact.

Since August, we have manually been crunching out thousands of items and matching them up every week. This has been a tremendous effort on behalf of all the content team, especially Perculia, and I'm really happy to announce that it's finally done and live on Wowhead right now!

In short, every item on the database should have an accurate same model as tab. From Breastplate of Cruel Intent to Ancient Spellcloak of the Highborne, we've gone through every item and matched them up manually. You may have to refresh your cache and give things time to settle to see all of them, as the data push on the site just went live, but the feature is now officially launched--and we wanted to give everyone the good news! To check it out, just go to an item and check its "Same Model As" tab to find any item that uses the same model.And while you're checking this feature out, why not tell us in the comments what transmog outfit you're wearing this cold winter?

Also, if you're looking for some inspiration, be sure to check out our transmogrification guides. We've updated them for 4.3:

Disclaimer: this feature was done only for chest pieces, belts, boots, bracers, gloves, legs, and capes. Helmets, weapons, shields, and shoulders were able to automatically generated as Blizzard used the same models for those. That said, if you find bugs in any, feel free to report them--we will probably undertake manually doing the rest later to make sure they match 100%.

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Comment by Laeleiweyn

You're the best! Already using Wowhead for all my transmog needs, this helps a lot! Thank you for the hard work. :)

(I'm on arena season 1 right now (hunter: gladiator), just need a belt and boots.)

Comment by Nulgar

on 2012-01-30T17:44:36-06:00

w00t it's finally here! Big thanks to Ashelia and the other people working on this *hands out virtual cookies*

As for what I'll be wearing soon, I'm gonna farm Plaguebat for my druid as soon as I'm done with some RL stuff and have time for WoW again :) I mean, more time, apart from the daily stuff, such as trying to get the Raven Lord on the 6th char :P

Comment by Monday

on 2012-01-30T17:46:53-06:00

Cool =)

Comment by Kristopher

on 2012-01-30T17:50:32-06:00

This is why Wowhead is where all the cool kids hang out at.

Comment by Baini

on 2012-01-30T17:54:31-06:00

Love you for it! Been waiting for this.

Comment by zandy1990

on 2012-01-30T17:56:58-06:00

I'm definitely going to like this new feature :]

And currently on my hunter, I'm wearing Tier 10. It's my absolute favorite in the game. Some people find it odd, but it's because I started playing during the middle of Wrath. After finally getting my hunter to level 80, I worked by butt off earning Emblems to buy my tier pieces. I felt accomplished when I had the whole set :] So this transmog set it good memories for me.

Comment by deathbyte

on 2012-01-30T17:57:02-06:00

Thats great.

I would just like to say THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH WOWHEAD MODS FOR PUTTING ALL THIS TIME INTO THIS SITE I refer friends who need help or want to find something here all the time (and yes, the bold was needed).

Comment by kasuturo

on 2012-01-30T18:08:19-06:00

You are already the best. Someone needs to invent a new cool adjective for you guys.

Comment by watdahel

on 2012-01-30T18:10:15-06:00

nice. now all that's missing is a "worn by" tab...

Comment by Bloodmercy

on 2012-01-30T18:10:24-06:00

Acid-Etched Pauldrons are showing as Same model with the Ironfeather Look-a-likes. :(Edit: so maybe a way to report incorrect "same model as"? Though I figure we could just use the bug forums for that.